Mechanical Zonation of Rock Properties and the Development of Hydrothermal Fluid Circulation Pathways: Implications for Enhanced Geothermal Systems Oladoyin Kolawole (
[email protected] ) Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas Tech University https://orcid.org/0000-0001- 9202-172X Ion Ispas Texas Tech University Folarin Kolawole School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma Christophe Germay EPSLOG S.A John D McLennan Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah Research Keywords: Enhanced geothermal system, Geomechanics, Hydrothermal alteration, Mechanical stratigraphy, Fracture mechanics Posted Date: December 10th, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-122204/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License 1 Mechanical Zonation of Rock Properties and the Development of 2 Hydrothermal Fluid Circulation Pathways: Implications for Enhanced 3 Geothermal Systems 4 1,2 1,2 3,4 5 5 Oladoyin Kolawole *, Ion Ispas , Folarin Kolawole , Christophe Germay , John D. 6 6 McLennan1Rock Mechanics Laboratory, 101 Terry Fuller Petroleum Engineering Research Building, Texas 7 Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA 8 2Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA 9 3School of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA 10 4Now at BP America Inc., Houston, TX, USA 11 5EPSLOG S.A., Liege, Belgium 12 6Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA 13 14 *Corresponding author:
[email protected] (Oladoyin Kolawole) 15 ORCID: O.K - 0000-0001-9202-172X; I.I - 0000-0003-3426-4031; F.K - 0000-0002-5695- 16 2778; JD.M - 0000-0002-6663-5063 17 ABSTRACT 18 19 Oil and gas operations in sedimentary basins have revealed significant temperatures at 20 depth, raising the possibility of major geothermal resource potential in the sedimentary 21 sequences.